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In 1858, the Taiping Rebellion continued. Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke became the first Europeans to discover Lake Tanganyika. Hymen Lipman received the first patent for attaching an eraser to the end of a pencil (later ruled invalid). Minnesota was admitted as a state. The Treaty of Tientsin was signed, ending the first part of the Second Opium War. John Hanning Speke became the first European to discover Lake Victoria, source of the River Nile. The first of the Lincoln-Douglas debates was held. Macy's department store opened for business in New York. Denver, Colorado, was founded.